My mom was introduced by my brother a neat little program called SCRATCH. This nifty thing allows anyone, and I mean anyone, to write their own computer program. The program was created by MIT students. It's primary target audience is kids, but I think I am going to have some fun too.
That's what we were hoping for when we set out to develop Scratch six years ago. We wanted to develop an approach to programming that would appeal to people who hadn't previously imagined themselves as programmers. We wanted to make it easy for everyone, of all ages, backgrounds, and interests, to program their own interactive stories, games, animations, and simulations, and share their creations with one another.
Since the public launch in May 2007, the Scratch Web site (http://scratch.mit.edu 
) has become a vibrant online community, with people sharing, discussing, and remixing one another's projects. Scratch has been called "the YouTube of interactive media." Each day, Scratchers from around the world upload more than 1,500 new projects to the site, with source code freely available for sharing and remixing. The site's collection of projects is wildly diverse, including video games, interactive newsletters, science simulations, virtual tours, birthday cards, animated dance contests, and interactive tutorials, all programmed in Scratch.
Check it out. I am going to definitely be adding this tool in our homeschool toolbox. I love the easy and creativity of this project and I can't wait to post what the girls come up with.
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